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The Big 6: Information Literacy for the Information Age Professional DocThe Big 6: Information Literacy for the Information Age Professional Doc
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9th - 10th
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21 Century Skills
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Professional Documents
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The Big 6: Information Literacy for the Information Age

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This is the home page for Big 6, a popular approach to information literacy and technology. There are sections for all grade levels and for teachers, showing how to incorporate the Big 6 into all kinds of lessons. The Big 6 are: task definition, information seeking, location and access, use of information, synthesis and evaluation.

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information literacy

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big six, information literacy skills, information seeking, location and access, task definition, use of information

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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